Deities of Slavic religion, arranged in cosmological and functional groups, are inherited through mythology and folklore. In modern Slavic Native Faith's theology and cosmology, gods are arranged as a hierarchy of powers begotten by the supreme God of the universe, Rod. The general Slavic term for "god" or "deity" is ??? bog, whose original meaning, as scholar Mathieu-Colas clarifies, is "wealth". Many Slavic gods have Indo-Iranian origin, and many are worshipped to this day in the countrysides despite longtime Christianisation of Slavic lands, apart from the relatively recent phenomenon of organised Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery).
Video Deities of Slavic religion
Absolute God / Rod
Maps Deities of Slavic religion
Highest cosmological concepts
Basic information from Mathieu-Colas 2017. Further information is appropriately referenced.
Supreme polarity
Heavenly threefold and fourfold
Goddesses
Basic information from Mathieu-Colas 2017. Further information is appropriately referenced.
Great goddesses
Other goddesses
Other gods
Basic information from Mathieu-Colas 2017. Further information is appropriately referenced.
Other important masculine gods
Other twosomes and threesomes
Tutelary deities of specific places, things and crafts
Basic information from Mathieu-Colas 2017. Further information is appropriately referenced.
Deities of waters and woods
Deities of settings and crafts
Deities of animals and plants
Germanic deities
The Wends, including those living in Germany and later Germanised, or the never-Germanised West Slavs, also worshipped deities adopted from Germanic religion, as documented by Bernhard Severin Ingemann. However, Germanic gods never rose to prominence over Slavic ones in Wendish religion.
See also
- Hindu deities
- Rigvedic deities
- Historical Slavic religion
- Slavic Native Faith
- Supernatural beings in Slavic religion, for other beings not included in this list.
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References
Footnotes
Sources
- Dixon-Kennedy, Mike (1998). Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57-607063-5.
- Dynda, Ji?í (2014). "The Three-Headed One at the Crossroad: A Comparative Study of the Slavic God Triglav" (PDF). Studia mythologica Slavica. 17. Institute of Slovenian Ethnology. pp. 57-82. ISSN 1408-6271. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2017.
- Hubbs, Joanna (1993). Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-25-311578-7.
- Ingemann, B. S. (1824). Grundtræk til En Nord-Slavisk og Vendisk Gudelære. Copenhagen.
- Ivanits, Linda J. (1989). Russian Folk Belief. M. E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765630889.
- Leeming, David (2005). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Sydney: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190288884.
- Mathieu-Colas, Michel (2017). "Dieux slaves et baltes" (PDF). Dictionnaire des noms des divinités. France: Archive ouverte des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société, Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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